Woven together
What brings us together as people of God? What is the 'tie tha binds' as the old hymn says? How do we come to understand the preciousness of time?
We do that by thinking about where we are --and who we are with --and what is happening in our world and in our lives right now. Then we have to understand that our lives are not THE life. We have to understand we are not the the center of the universe. The world and all of us together are the lives of this time. What happens to a child, a woman, an adult around the world also happens to us. We are all so very connected. And isn't that what life is all about? This connection. Humankind was not created to be solitary beings.
The WWW world wide web, (I first typed the World Wild Web which is perhaps more accurate) is part of what connects us now. We are linked and inter woven...all of us around the world.
Years ago at a PW meeting in Logan Utah we ended the first night of a retreat by sitting in a circle (women=circle) and we had a big ball of yarn. We took the yarn and tossed it across and back and forth to one another each one rasing a concern or prayer we had to share. When we were finished each one in the room was connected..some closer to others...but all connected. A tug here or a tug there pulled all of us and the part of the string we held.
I am always happy that the Presbyterian Women's symbol is a circle but there is a break in the chain - in part I always thought to symbolize there is always room for others. We are not a locked system. We are an open system waiting for another. God's family is like that open system waiting for another.
Whether visible or invisible we are connected by a web of God's love for each of us and and we are drawn together --a tug here or there-- and we are all pulled. And we all dance together and weep together when life situations are involved. What a joy what a joy! What a wonderful opportunity.
And this should be cause for celebration. We are One in the Spirit. Truly
God abides
Bobbie McGarey
@2004
Duncan, Oklahoma
USA
We do that by thinking about where we are --and who we are with --and what is happening in our world and in our lives right now. Then we have to understand that our lives are not THE life. We have to understand we are not the the center of the universe. The world and all of us together are the lives of this time. What happens to a child, a woman, an adult around the world also happens to us. We are all so very connected. And isn't that what life is all about? This connection. Humankind was not created to be solitary beings.
The WWW world wide web, (I first typed the World Wild Web which is perhaps more accurate) is part of what connects us now. We are linked and inter woven...all of us around the world.
Years ago at a PW meeting in Logan Utah we ended the first night of a retreat by sitting in a circle (women=circle) and we had a big ball of yarn. We took the yarn and tossed it across and back and forth to one another each one rasing a concern or prayer we had to share. When we were finished each one in the room was connected..some closer to others...but all connected. A tug here or a tug there pulled all of us and the part of the string we held.
I am always happy that the Presbyterian Women's symbol is a circle but there is a break in the chain - in part I always thought to symbolize there is always room for others. We are not a locked system. We are an open system waiting for another. God's family is like that open system waiting for another.
Whether visible or invisible we are connected by a web of God's love for each of us and and we are drawn together --a tug here or there-- and we are all pulled. And we all dance together and weep together when life situations are involved. What a joy what a joy! What a wonderful opportunity.
And this should be cause for celebration. We are One in the Spirit. Truly
God abides
Bobbie McGarey
@2004
Duncan, Oklahoma
USA
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